First stereogram of the new year!

[Grafixman]

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Quit pulling our leg, Risto. I think you saw Gary's stereogram just fine. You used the word twice in one of your sentences.
My technique is to press your face closely to the monitor and slowly move back. At some distance, the image just pops out of the background.
Great fun. I like.

[gwpriester]

Cheer up Risto

Attached is the hidden image "depth map" which the software uses to create the hidden 3D image.

The software recognizes 255 grayscale shades with white coming out the most and black going back the most and the other shades in-between.

As you can see the hidden shapes are very simple, a circle with a circular fill and with a Profile 2 profile applied to the fill which makes the 3D sphere more round, and the text in white to come out the most.

As simple as this is, it took me the better part of half a day of experimenting to get the text to read clearly, which was what the client had requested. Text is stereograms is always difficult but placing the text over the sphere seemed to work best.

Gary

[RTK]

Grafixman: Quit pulling our leg, Risto. I think you saw Gary's stereogram just fine.
--- No, I really didn't! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif And I still can't... Freaky though! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif But hey, that makes Gary's stereogram even more interesting for the ones that do get it after much pain and agony (and late hours at the office...) http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Gary, thanks for posting the "depth" image! Unfortunately it didn't help...

I have really poor eyesight, maybe that's what's messing with me? But I also get easily distracted by other shapes I see... I didn't see "focus" but I did see:

- a Viking wrestling with the skull of a dragon
- something that looked like a banana
- a man with a big watch where his stomache would be

But that's probably just me...

Oh, well... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

One day... One day...

[Grafixman]

You must be psychic then. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif You're seeing things without seeing them. As for the other images, I think you focused too deeply .

[John Rayner]

"You must be psychic then." - Grafixman

You spelled it wrong. In Risto's case, it's spelled pyscho... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[simsmj]

Just a suggestion, but I cannot get those stereograms that are created in Diverging mode, but have no trouble at all with the Converging kind. Since software like GP Popout generally offer both modes, Gary's depth file could be re-rendered in Converging mode, and thus another chunk of the population, well, at least one http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif could enjoy the view.

Meanwhile here is a Converging type stereogram based on Gary's excellent tutorial

Mike Sims

[gwpriester]

I learned some time ago that people who see the image as going away instead of popping out are viewing the image with the crossed eyes method.

So if I could just get my eyes to cross and focus on Mike's image I suspect the image would come forward.

OK Yep it works. Now I see what looks like 4 candy canes roated 90 degrees each.

Now I have to get my eyes to uncross http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif My mom always said this would happen.

Gary

[dafipp]

Mike,
Thank you so much! Very cool. That was the easiest I have ever had seeing one of these. And I was able to hold it so much longer too. I almost got all the way back to a normal sitting position.
dafipp
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[OklaEd]

Mike,
That was the first stereogram I've looked at in the past few days (I've been looking at several) that popped out ... instead of went in ... and I didn't have to hold my finger in front of it to "keep" the image. Must have something to do with my near-sightedness and the "CONVERGING" option you mentioned http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

-Ed.

[OklaEd]

WOW ... Crossing your eyes DOES work ... why is the room spinning http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Gary,
All of yours I have looked at are INNies instead of OUTies ... are they supposed to be? or is it just ME.